GENEVA — The Vatican faced a barrage of pointed questions from a United Nations panel on Thursday ... on the Rights of the Child, which calls on signers to protect children from harm, including sexual and physical abuse. The committee will issue final ...

VATICAN CITY ... its record on child sexual abuse to a United Nations panel, a move that will show how Pope Francis wants to handle an issue that has deeply scarred the Catholic Church’s image in the past decade. The Geneva-based U.N. Committee ...

(Photo: Riccardo De Luca, AP) NEW YORK (AP) — A second U.N. committee plans to question Vatican officials on failures to stop clergy sex abuse. The hearing scheduled for May 5-6 in Geneva will look at whether the Vatican's record on child protection ...

According to the “List of Issues” submitted by the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Vatican will have to explain the measures it has put in place to “ensure that no member of the clergy currently accused of sexual abuse be allowed to ...

The questions from the panel aimed to assess the Church's adherence to the 1990 U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty guaranteeing ... it was "deeply saddened by the scourge of sexual abuse" and emphasized that it had changed the ...

The hearing was the second U.N. committee appearance by Holy See representatives this year after a children's rights panel in January also called the Vatican to account for its response to allegations around the world of child sexual abuse by clergy.

If the past is prologue, it could be another missed opportunity if the independent experts on the panel grind ideological axes instead of posing legitimate questions ... the panels pressed Vatican officials on the child …

Senior Vatican officials came under a barrage of critical questions by an independent United Nations panel Thursday over the Roman Catholic Church's response to allegations of child sexual abuse by ... and Spain. The U.N. had jurisdiction to compel the ...

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UN Investigates Vatican Sex Abuse Record

“While we don’t deny the gravity (of child sex abuse), someone is trying to take advantage” of the U.N. committee procedure, he said. UN panel questions Vatican record on child sex abuse - The